skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In any language, arrays are inherently regions of memory and indexes are -- whether they start at 0 or 1 -- offsets into that region. When you implement more complicated algorithms in any language, whether or not it has pointers or how arrays are syntactically manipulated, you start having to do mathematical operations on both indexes and on ranges of index, and it feels really important to make these situations easier.

If you then even consider the simple case of nested arrays, I think it becomes really difficult to defend 1-based indexing as being cognitively easier to manipulate, as the unit of "index" doesn't naturally map to a counting number like that... if you use 0-based indexes, all of the math is simple, whereas with 1-based you have to rebalance your 1s depending on "how many" indexes your compound unit now represents.
As we approach the end of 2024, we wanted to take a moment to share highlights from this transformative year for Xeoma and the broader field of video surveillance. This year, our team focused on three core pillars: innovation, user-centric design, and integration of cutting-edge AI technologies.

2024 Milestones:

1. Smarter Interfaces for Everyone

Introduced a modernized and minimalist interface with smarter scaling for various devices. Interaface is now available in 78 languages, making Xeoma more universal than ever.

2. AI Innovations for Enhanced Safety

Released AI-powered modules such as:
- Speech Recognition: Real-time transcription and detection of key phrases.
- Construction Safety Detector: Advanced algorithms for monitoring helmet usage and workplace safety compliance.
- Restaurant Visitor Counter: AI-driven analytics for customer insights and optimization.

3. Improved Performance Across Platforms

Added H.266 (VVC) codec support for improved compression and streaming quality.
Integrated seamless PTZ joystick control on Linux and advanced motion visualization for archives.

4. Collaborative Problem Solving

Launched the "Setup Wizard," streamlining initial system configurations for users, from selecting modules to enabling P2P connections.

5. Community Involvement

Worked with users to refine features based on feedback, including enhanced support for emerging camera models and video stream types like m3u8.

Key Challenges and Lessons Learned:
While AI modules made significant strides, balancing performance with resource usage remains an ongoing challenge. Our approach has been to optimize algorithms for real-time processing, which we'd love to discuss further with the community here.

Scaling up support for newer, underrepresented languages tested the limits of our localization workflows. If you’ve faced similar challenges, we’d love to hear your thoughts!

What’s Next?
Looking forward to 2025, we're exploring new AI applications in video surveillance, like predictive analytics and ethical use cases for public safety. We're also planning to expand compatibility with more hardware and cloud ecosystems.

What trends in video surveillance or AI have caught your attention this year? How do you see these technologies shaping 2025? We're keen to learn from the HN community's perspective and insights.

Lastly, a heartfelt thank you to our users and the tech community for your support and collaboration. Here’s to building a smarter, safer, and more connected world together. Happy New Year!
The Depletion Paradox
I think the big mistake is _blindly relying on the results_ - although that problem has been improving dramatically (gpt3.5 hallucinated constantly, I rarely see a hallucination w/ the latest gpt/claude models)
That doesn't solve the problem, though. orphan-handling lets you choose between loud breakage and quiet breakage. I want no breakage!
The title is hyperbolic. You still do need a passport and there's no such thing as a digital passport. You need to register your document at some point, so that one is what you will use. Using a different passport would mean logging in and changing your data; your user will be unchanged.
I must not be the target audience for this. What exactly is the purpose of this article? How to rewrite a simple C program in a complex combination of assembly and syscalls?
> The JVM is a VM in that sense. It isn't a physical computer, but presents itself as one.

No, it isn't and doesn't. What in the world does it have that makes you think it pretends to be a computer? A bunch of pretend registers and a memory limit?
> Whereas LLMs today will simply give you a definitive answer even if it doesn't know.

Have you not seen an LLM say it doesn't know the answer to something? I just asked

"How do I enable a scroflpublaflex on a ggh connection?"

to O1 pro as it's what I had open.

Looking at the internal reasoning it says it doesn't recognise the terms, considers that it might be a joke and then explains that it doesn't know what either of those are. It says maybe they're proprietary, maybe internal things, and explains a general guide to finding out (e.g. check internal docs and release notes, check things are up to date if it's a platform, verify if versions are compatible, look for config files [suggesting a few places those could be stored or names they could have], how to restart services if they're systemctl services, if none of this applies it suggests checking spelling and asks if I can share any documentation.

This isn't unique or weird in my experience. Better models tend to be better at saying they don't know.
Well, it's already common among techies to flex about how shitty they live - like a bed, a chair, a TV and a game console and no decoration.

They already like to glamorize concentration of wealth, they love how America has the largest companies and Japan&Europe is failing because they don'y have as large companies.

They already obsess over things like sexuality, identity, culture wars etc. When the tension becomes too high, You can always give them a win over destroying a character you created? Let them really hate the vegans, glamorize Lamborghinis or Teslas, hook them to the online world and reduce the real world interactions so they can have wins cheap for you and keep working very hard.

To curb any social movements that don't align with this model, you just make sure that have control over the communications.

Ideally, CEOs stay in London, Zurich, Frankfurt and Paris as it might be dangerous if they are among the workers in New York etc.
What certificate are you talking about? The document is your face
I dispute that. Introvert/extrovert distinction is outdated and pseudoscientific. The new definition (watered down) is that some people seek stronger stimuli while others avoid stronger stimuli. Autism is an extreme example of the later.
Quiver exports to tikz-cd for what it’s worth. Not sure how readable the code tends to be though
> Passports can die when they merge the passport with my drivers license, at least here in the US.

They've been trying to do this, with "Real IDs"

https://www.usa.gov/real-id

Not exactly what you're asking for, but it's more akin to making Drivers licenses like passport cards
Except...the US isn't partly responsible.
It would have to be trained in 100% of all potential scenarios. Any scenario that happens for which they're not trained equals certain disaster, unlike a human who can adapt and improvise based on things AI does not have; feelings, emotions, creativity.
The use of "Internet" in the title and article is deceptive. They did not send data over the Internet, they sent conventional optical data over a 30 mile spool of fiber and quantum entangled photons on an unused wavelength over the same cable in a laboratory setting.
If you had a magic stasis tube that kept a person suspended while you weren’t talking to them, they’d still be a thinking machine.
Everyone has a price, is this meant to be shocking? I mean, I’m disappointed… but I’d have been far more surprised if they’d stood fast with the philanthropic mission once world-changing money was on the table.
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It is interesting how Kamala out-raised Trump by nearly double in this most recent election. I guess it's not as simple as 'buying' a politician after all.
… One odd thing I’ve noticed about the people who are very enthusiastic about the use of LLMs in programming is that they appear to be unaware of any _other_ programming tools. Like, this is a solved problem, more or less; code-aware editors have been a thing since the 90s (maybe before?)
Can you explain why you're unwilling to give a telephone interview about this? Censorship is a very serious issue unbecoming of America. I agree there is heavy censorship and I would like to interview you about it. You could also join a class-action lawsuit. I urge you to consider giving me an interview. Best regards, Robert Viragh
It's even worse. AI is a really smart but inexperienced person who also lies frequently. Because AI is not accountable to anything, it'll always come up with a reasonable answer to any question, if it is correct or not.
You seem to be thinking of attestation, which is not a thing anymore with at least Apple's and Google's implementation. (They both had it for their non-synchronizing device-bound authenticators, but have heavily or even entirely rolled that back in favor of passkeys.)

And since any solution excluding either of these is a non-starter, ironically the passkey push has made WebAuthN more open when it comes to client choice.

So while I agree that Apple and Google not allowing passkey exports (yet; I am cautiously optimistic that they'll eventually be pushed to offer that too) runs the risk of locking in non-sophisticated users, the future is looking very bright for everybody posting here at least.
> By the same token, men are also more likely to die on the front lines of a war, but that doesn't mean that you're safer there as a woman, it means there are far fewer of them there!

And this is why? Women don't get drafted. Proving my point.

The rest of your post is victim blaming.
I agree. The systems in place already solve generalized problems not directly represented in the training set or algorithm . That was, up until the last few years , the off the shelf definition of AGI.

And the systems in place do so at scales and breadths that no human could achieve.

That doesn’t change the fact that it’s effectively triple PHD uncle Jim, as in slightly unreliable and prone to bullshitting its way through questions, despite having a breathtaking depth and breadth of knowledge.

What we are making is not software in any normal sense of the word, but rather an engine to navigate the entire pool of human knowledge, including all of the stupidity, bias, and idiosyncrasies of humanity, all rolled up into a big sticky glob.

It’s an incredibly powerful tool, but it’s a fundamentally different class of tool. We cannot expect to apply conventional software processes and paradigms to LLM based tools any more than we could apply those paradigms to politics or child rearing and expect useful results.
This is pure speculation but being a nonprofit, there's still a risk of getting sued by the public on the grounds of not following the promises of their work being a public good.
You're the second person to talk about cruise missiles in this subthread.

The comment I replied to (and quoted in my reply) talked specifically about "high-speed missiles". Nearly all cruise missiles are most emphatically NOT that sort of missile.
Well?

You're still purposefully ignoring and refusing to acknowledge my point that your valid criticism actually reinforces his point of how vile, unethical, and evil Elon Musk is.

You're also ignoring the point that another poster, a Google employee, wrote that Google pulled out of Project Maven due to employee protests, but Amazon and Microsoft didn't. And I'd bet you anything that Musk would gladly accept such evil government contracts for the right amount of money. He already does, in fact.

Please answer my question, if you're not afraid to: So abusing your kid in public isn't evil, public humiliation and verbal abuse is fine parenting, but you draw the line at murder?

So do you agree with the [flagged] [dead] comments of other idiotic hateful transphobic homophobic Musk fan-boys in this thread who are parroting and amplifying Musk's abuse against his own child?

Those [flagged] [dead] posts are incontrovertible proof that Musk's public abuse of his own child actually encourages other people to pile on and abuse her too, as well as many many other trans and LGBTQ people. And they don't stop at Musk's daughter, and the don't stop at verbal abuse: they physically assault and even rape trans people, because people like Musk encourage in incite them to hate and assault the same people he does, including but certainly not limited to his own daughter.

Go to your user use page at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=llm_trw , then select showdead: true, then come back to this thread and read the [flagged] [dead] comments, then tell me if you agree with them and Musk, and that's whose side you want to support in this debate. Or just don't reply if you're too embarrassed and cowardly to admit it.

Do you really want to use an LLM pre-loaded with Musk's hatred and abuse? And are you actually naive enough to think he wouldn't do that, since he bought Twitter for the express purpose of shoving his opinions down everyone's throat?
No, it's pretty clear.
Probably the most significant policy lever Beijing had was the license plate lottery. You can buy any car you like, but you can't legally drive it unless you have a license plate, which is acquired separately from the vehicle. ICE car buyers have to go into a license plate lottery, whilst EV car buyers are guaranteed a plate. It's pretty much killed the ICE market in China
Wow. This is amazing. Extremely practical to use, I'm glad I checked H.N. yesterday.
I literally googled “Steam Deck Plus” because I read it wrong and immediately wanted to know about whatever new Steam Deck Valve was selling.
Mention bleach and motor oil and see if it manages to exclude those!
Some useful background for anyone (like me) who has never heard of the 'timescape' cosmological model: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/dark-en...
The problem with that is, the law absolutely demands that the platform comply with any valid takedown notice, so YouTube isn't going to risk having any false negatives (due to internal miscommunications on Nintendo's side, etc.). It's made the responsibility of the uploader to challenge it with a counter-notice, but YouTube makes the process for those far more difficult than what the law says. (YouTube opens itself up to liability if it doesn't put the video back up upon receiving a counter-notice, but it's not like the uploader would be able to sue YouTube for much of anything.)
> But we all like to think we have super unique opinions and personalities, so "this time it's different."

Are you suggesting that anything which is hyped is the future? Like, for every ten heavily-hyped things, _maybe_ one has some sort of post-hype existence.
We've had 300,000 years to adapt to the specific ways in which humans are fallible, even if our minds are black boxes.

Humans fail in predictable and familiar ways.

Creating a new system that fails in unpredictable and unfamiliar ways and affording it the same control as a human being is dangerous. We can't adapt overnight and we may never adapt.

This isn't an argument against the utility of LLMs, but against the promise of "fire and forget" AI.
Fraudulent claims — those in which the filer knew or should have known that they did not hold any copyright being infringed upon nor were they duly authorized to act on behalf of another party whose copyright was being infringed upon — should be treated as such, with exposure to civil and criminal penalties for the individuals involved as well as their employer.

Platforms should only accept takedown requests through channels in which a person has credibly identified themselves so that they can be held accountable in this way.
After using them for a long time I am convinced they have no true intelligence beyond what is latent in training data. In other words I think we are kind of fooling ourselves.

That being said they are very useful. I mostly use them as a far superior alternative to web search and as a kind of junior research assistant. Anything they find must be checked of course.

I think we have invented the sci-fi trope of the AI librarian of the galactic archive. It can’t solve problems but it can rifle through the totality of human knowledge and rapidly find things.

It’s a search engine.
Is that so? I'm not in the US, so I don't have a good idea of what's going on there. But wasn't there relatively high unemployment among developers after all these Big Tech layoffs post pandemic? Shouldn't companies there have an easy time finding local talent?

Sorry for the potentially silly question. I just spent some time trying to research it and came up with nothing concrete.
To put it in other words: it is not clear when and how they hallucinate. With a person, their competence could be understood and also their limits. But a llm can happily give different answers based on trivial changes in the question with no warning.
Five years later, when the contract turns out to be defective, I doubt the clients are going to be _thrilled_ with “well, no, I didn’t read it, but I did feed it to a magic robot”.

Like, this is malpractice, surely?
Find out their frame of reference, look for comparable concepts in the real world. For technical debt, this scene from Malcolm in the Middle (S03E06) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0 might be a good comparison.

If you refuse to explain relevant concepts to your PM, as a neighbouring commentor suggests, that increases the knowledge gap between you (or your team) and the PM. I think it's in the best interest of both the team and the PM that they have a shared understanding of what happens within a project. On the other hand, if the PM is not interested in any of those details, that is a sign that they might not be a good fit in that part of the organisation.
Oh yeah we only allow people to speak poor english in very public functions, like the head of state or the secretary general of NATO.

It helps make the rest of us look good.
What I don’t understand is why Russian SAM operators did not appear to expect the airliner via its flight plan. Commercial flights file flight plans with Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs). Flights into Russia would almost certainly be filed with FATA, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency.

I see two possibilities: 1) the flight plan was known to the officer in charge of the SAM site and he was under orders to shoot the plane down and now they’re trying to cover it up or 2) it was a genuine mistake and so there was some kind of miscommunication or perhaps the air defence forces weren’t even looking at flight plans and just shooting at anything that looked suspicious on radar. Gross incompetence and lack of training and coordination in the Russian military are all issues we’ve come to expect so it’s easy to see how this could happen without knowing for sure. And since Russia seems to be in full denial/obstruction mode we might never know exactly what went wrong.
Have you maybe confused the time periods in the different discussions? I think the AI making jobs obsolete part is in the next few years, whereas the talent shortage issue is right now - although as usual, it's a wage issue, not a talent issue. Pay enough and the right people will turn up.
> Ukraine uses (among other things) fixed-wing drones with similar characteristics to civilian aircraft.

Including taking off from commercial airports on publicly available schedules, on predetermined airways/corridors, and broadcasting 1080 MHZ ADS-B data?
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Apple and Google discontinued attestation when they introduced passkeys. It's gone.

There are still lots of problems with passkeys, but it's worth staying up to date if you want to contribute to that discussion.
Alternate possibility:

"We're beginning to see that this path isn't going where we thought it would so we're going to extract as much value as we can before it crashes into mundaneness."
Is anyone able to explain to me how this demonstrates "information without direct transmission" when a direct 30km fiber line is needed to transmit the data, and how you can call it teleportation when it's "limited by the speed of light"? Not doubting they did something special but I couldn't tell from the article what exactly it was that they did which is unique from standard fiber transmission (other than they received a single photon using an atypical frequency).
This is eerily well-timed!

My partner and I do something similar for Korean & English (she’s Korean native and is fluent in English and I’m learning Korean). We actually built it out for ourselves and some friends and just released it yesterday[0].

Still working out some kinks, but it sends a question every weekday via email that you’d respond to. It then sends back feedback on vocab & grammar, all with spaced repetition baked in to keep track of words you learn/use as you continue.

It’s currently tailored towards those that can already read and have basics under their belt.

[0] https://dailytokki.com/?ref=hn
How long til I start seeing ads in my dreams?
DMCA works on a "takedown first, ask questions later" basis. Therefore, the solution is to flood YouTube and Google with massive, frivolous DMCA requests targeting the creators of DMCA like Microsoft, Apple, and Disney. They'll solve the problem if it affects them, maybe.
In this particular case but you make it hard for the fake "little people" to pursue claims and you make it hard for the real "little people" to do so as well while not really inconviencing large corporations at all.
The problem is it's still a computer. And that's okay.

I can ask the computer "hey I know this thing exists in your training data, tell me what it is and cite your sources." This is awesome. Seriously.

But what that means is you can ask it for sample code, or to answer a legal question, but fundamentally you're getting a search engine reading something back to you. It is not a programmer and it is not a lawyer.

The hype train really wants to exaggerate this to "we're going to steal all the jobs" because that makes the stock price go up.

They would be far less excited about that if they read a little history.
> thought the future was running actual code on the blockchain and using that as part of the backend

What did that code do besides process transactions and distribute tokens?

Almost nothing.

It’d be the payment gateway layer of any backend. Processing payments and returning proof of purchase.
You don't even necessarily need lucid dreaming to explain these experiences. Practices clearly intended to altar mental & emotional state are endemic to all religions.

Combined fasting, sleep deprivation, and focused attention are enough to induce hallucinatory experiences for a lot of people, specifically if that experience is sought out over time. Even in christianity this was widespread until relatively recently in the form of pre-feast fasting & vigil, and is still practiced by monastics.

Lucid dreaming may be part of these traditions I don't really know. Religious experience is so broad and ancient it's hard to rule things out. But there are a lot of descriptions of visions, and while it's common for them not to distinguish between "visions" and "dreams" per se I've never read a description of something that sounds like lucid dreaming in a pre-modern source.
that's a fallacy that was ignored when starting llvm and looking at the already existing gcc.
Despite the standardization, my micro-USB devices are still going strong. From Apple perspective, that's one less proprietary connector to manage